The 2007-2008 Tony Award nominations were announced May 13 by Tony Award winners Sara Ramirez and David Hyde Pierce at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Nominees for Best Musical include Cry-Baby, In the Heights, Passing Strange and Xanadu.

In the Heights, which began life at Off-Broadway's 37 Arts prior to arriving at the Richard Rodgers Theatre earlier this year, earned the most nominations of any show this season: 13. In addition to a Best Musical nomination, the Washington Heights-based musical also picked up nods for Best Book of a Musical, Best Original Score, Best Performance By a Leading Actor in a Musical, Best Performance By a Featured Actor in a Musical, Best Performance By a Featured Actress in a Musical, Best Direction of a Musical, Best Choreography, Best Orchestrations, Best Scenic Design of a Musical, Best Costume Design of a Musical, Best Lighting Design of a Musical and Best Sound Design of a Musical.

There were also several individuals who earned multiple Tony nominations. Pop artist Stew heads the list with four nominations for the new musical Passing Strange: Best Book of a Musical, Best Original Score (with Heidi Rodewald), Best Performance By a Leading Actor in a Musical and Best Orchestrations (with Rodewald). In the Heights' Lin-Manuel Miranda picked up two nominations: Best Original Score and Best Performance By a Leading Actor in a Musical. Others with dual Tony nominations include David Farley (Scenic and Costume Design for Sunday in the Park with George; the former with Timothy Bird and The Knifedge Creative Network), Peter McKintosh (Scenic and Costume Design for The 39 Steps) and Donald Holder (Lighting Design for Les Liaisons Dangereuses and South Pacific).

A Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre will be given to famed Broadway composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim, while another Special Tony will be awarded posthumously to orchestrator Robert Russell Bennet in "recognition of his historic contribution to American musical theatre in the field of orchestrations, as represented on Broadway this season by Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific." The Regional Theatre Tony Award will be given to Chicago Shakespeare Theater.

Best Performance By a Leading Actor in a MusicalDaniel Evans, Sunday in the Park With George Lin-Manuel Miranda, In the Heights Stew, Passing StrangePaulo Szot, Rodgers and Hammerstein's South PacificTom Wopat, A Catered Affair

Best Scenic Design of a Musical David Farley and Timothy Bird & The Knifedge Creative Network, Sunday in the Park with GeorgeAnna Louizos, In the Heights Robin Wagner, The New Mel Brooks Musical Young FrankensteinMichael Yeargan, Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific

Best Sound Design of a Musical Acme Sound Partners, In the Heights Sebastian Frost, Sunday in the Park with GeorgeScott Lehrer, Rodgers & Hammerstein's South PacificDan Moses Schreier, Gypsy

Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre Stephen Sondheim

Regional Theatre Tony Award Chicago Shakespeare Theater

Special Tony AwardRobert Russell Bennett (1894-1981), in recognition of his historic contribution to American musical theatre in the field of orchestrations, as represented on Broadway this season by Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific.

The 62nd Annual Tony Awards — hosted by Tony and Academy Award winner Whoopi Goldberg — will be presented June 15. CBS-TV will broadcast the event live from Radio City Music Hall, 8-11 PM ET. (Red-carpet arrivals will begin at 6 PM).